"I conjecture," said the major, "that the rascally manager has given his men too much leeway.

The training of a lifetime would not permit him to deny himself a liberal leeway for hedging, therefore he replied, cautiously: "My figures will be approximately £1,400,000 sterling."

'Must go now and fetch out th' old hoss for a trifle of haulage; an' when I get back I must clean meself an' shift for night-schoolme bein' due early there to fetch up leeway.

i' your tail, Right on ye scud your sea-way; But in the teeth o' baith to sail, It maks an unco leeway.

She won't sail anywhere near the wind, and makes awful leeway.

And then, suddenly, the man with me clutched my shoulder, and pointed into the darkness upon our bow, and thus I discovered that we had come nearer to the weed than the bo'sun and the second mate had intended; they, without doubt, having miscalculated our leeway.

They practically put the French engineers, who started the Canal, out of the running, and even when the United States engineers started figuring they didn't allow enough leeway for the Culebra slides.

Dan stepped over the dashboard, groped his way along the tongue between the wheel-horses and reached the leeway of a shadowy square.